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OED has

native, adj:

11. Of a person or social group.

a. Born in a designated place; belonging to a particular people by birth; spec. belonging to an indigenous ethnic group, as distinguished from foreigners, esp. European colonists.

indigenous, a:

2. Of, pertaining to, or intended for the natives; ‘native’, vernacular.

aboriginal, adj:

1. a. First or earliest as recorded by history; present from the beginning; primitive. Of peoples, plants, and animals: inhabiting or existing in a land from earliest times; strictly native, indigenous.



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